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650+ Prestigious, Award Winning Authors, Photographers, Editors & Translators
Shereen
Ratnagar
Shereen Ratnagar studiedย Mesopotamianย archaeologyย at
theย Institute of Archaeology,ย University College London. She was aย professorย of
archaeology andย ancient historyย at the Centre for
Historical Studies at theย Jawaharlal Nehru University,ย Delhi. She retired in
2000, and is currently an independent researcher living inย Mumbai.
She is noted for work on investigating the factors contributing to the end of
the Indus Valley Civilization.
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Shikher
Dubey
Shikher Dubey, with a Masterโs in Business Administration, has worked with several multinational organizations. He now runs a successful business and, at the same time, manages to find the time to write motivational literature.
Shilpa
Shah
Shilpa Shah Shilpa Shah is the co-founder of the TAPI Collection of Indian Textiles and Art. She researches and writes articles on Indian textile art, and holds an M.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
Shiraz
Mukherjee
Hailing from erstwhile ยCalcuttaย, Shiraz Mukherjee was a first-division football player who also trained in theatre as an actor, writer, and director. A commerce graduate, he later shifted to Mumbai to become a filmmaker. Trained by Prahlad Kakkad, he has assisted celebrities like Shekhar Kapoor, Rakesh Mehra, Tigmanshu Dhulia. As the creative producer for a top-of-the-line production company, in Mumbai, he makes TV commercials, films, and documentaries and also organises theatre workshops for aspiring actors.
Shireen
Quadri
Shireen Quadri Shireen Quadri is the founder and publisher of The Punch Magazine. As the director of Punch Art and Cultural Foundation, which endeavours to chronicle the proliferation of arts, literature and culture in India and around the world, she has been working in the area of art and culture for the last seven years.ย She has earlier worked as a marketing and communications professional with several publishing houses, including Westland (Amazon) and Simon & Schuster India. She writes on books, culture, travel and hospitality.ย She has served as project coordinator for Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters. She is one of the jury members for the upcoming tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2021. On Twitter and Instagram, her handle is @shireenquadri. You can reach her at shireenquadri@thepunchmagazine.com
Shirshendu
Mukhopadhyay
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, a very prominent presence in the realm of Bengali literature, was born in Bikrampur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1935. With his father being a railway employee, his childhood was spent in Bihar, Bengal, and Assam. He graduated from Calcutta University and went on to obtain a Masters in Bengali. His first novel, "Ghunpoka," was published in the "Desh" magazine. In 1985, he was awarded the "Vidyasagar Puroshkar" for his commendable work in the genre of literature for young adults. His very popular novel, "Manabjameen," was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1988. He has also received the Ananda Puroshkar a couple of times. The vast and varied cache of his literary work includes novels and short stories for all age groups. "Kagojer Bou," "Ashchorjyo Pradip," and "Goynar Baksho" have been adapted into movies. Besides writing, he is a voracious reader and intensely passionate about sports.
Shivang
Mehta
A journalist turned PR professional with experience in corporate communications, Shivang Mehtaโs love of nature eventually led him to leave the cozy comforts of the corporate office for the field. He is now an avid traveler and nature photographer. Over the years, Shivang has conducted more than 200 field wildlife photography workshops and is currently an official trainer for Canon India. He is also the managing director of Nature Wanderers, Indiaโs premier photo tour company, specializing in Indian wildlife, including capturing rare species and camera trap photography.
Shobha
Broota
Shobha Broota, a recipient of the AIFACS and Sahitya Kala Parishad awards, has her work showcased in significant private and public collections in India and overseas.
A recipient of the AIFACS and Sahitya Kala
Parishad awards, Shobha Brootaยs
work is displayed in important private and public collections in India and
abroad.
Shobha
Singh
In 1969 Shobha Deepak Singh bought a Nikon and captured Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendraยs productions. She focused on the spot of action, and the result were a wonderful set of images.
Shome
Basu
Shome Basu has traveled widely and has undertaken a variety of assignments ranging from politics to features and business. His work on Kashmir has garnered him international acclaim.
Shreya
Duggal
Shreya is an artist
from NIFT, New Delhi, who loves nothing
more than bringing stories to life with her
vibrant art.
Shrinkhla
Sahai
Shrinkhla Sahai has presented papers on Hindustani classical music, dance, radio, and sound.
Shubhrata
Mishra
Shyam
Benegal
Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter. With his first
four feature films Ankur, Nishant,
Manthan and Bhumika he was part of a new genre, which has now come to
be called the "middle cinema" in India.
Siddharth
Dasgupta
Inspired by The Little Prince at the age of seven, Siddharth Dasgupta resolved to explore and experience the horizons of the universe when he grew up.ย He appears to have come good on that promise combining travel with cultural immersion and contributing regularly to aesthetic magazines and travel journals alike. Siddharthaยs fiction is infused with travel details, imbued in lyricism and magic realism, and enriched by a meditative touch.ย His first work of fiction, Letters from an Indian Summer, was published in 2014. This is his second book.
Juhi
Sinha
Juhi Sinha
is a filmmaker and author. She runs her own production house and has written,
produced and directed programmes that have been telecast on both Doordarshan
and satellite channels and have been screened at film festivals in India and
abroad. Besides writing articles for leading newspapers and magazines in India,
she has written for children, (Scholastic India) as well as several short
stories for general readership, which have won international acclaim. Her last
book ยBeyond the Dunes ย Journeys in
Rajasthanย was published by Penguin India in 2007.???? ?????? ?? ?????? ????????ย???????? ?? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????????? ???? ??? ???????? ??? ??????????? ?? ????, ????? ?? ????????? ???? ?? ?? ???????? ?? ???????? ?????? ?? ???????? ?? ???? ??? ?? ??? ?? ??? ????? ?? ?????? ???????? ??? ????? ?? ???? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ?????? ?????? ?? ????????? ??? ???? ?? ????????, ???????? ?????? ?? ??? (??????????? ???????) ?? ??? ??? ??????? ?????? ?? ??? ?? ??? ????? ?? ???? ???, ??????? ????????????? ?????? ???? ??? 2007 ??? ??????? ?????? ?? ???? ?? ?? ?? ?????? ?????? ย??????? ????? - ??????? ?? ????????ย ???????? ?? ??
Sipra
Das
Sipra Das is a leading photojournalist who has explored various aspects and phases of Indian life, history, and politics with an unfailing eye for detail.
Sir James
Barrie
Sisir
Bose
Sisir Kumar Bose (1920-2000) founded the Netaji Research Bureau in 1957 and was its guiding spirit until his death in 2000. A gallant participant in Indiaโs freedom struggle, he was imprisoned by the British in the Lahore Fort, Red Fort, and Lyallpur Jail. In the post-Independence period, he became one of Indiaโs leading pediatricians. Even in the midst of a busy professional life, he played a key role in preserving the best traditions of the anti-colonial movement and making possible the writing of its history. Son of Sarat Chandra Bose and Bivabati Bose, Sisir helped his uncle Subhas Chandra Bose in planning and executing the great escape from India in January 1941. He drove Netaji from Calcutta to Gomoh on the first leg of his epic journey. Sisir took an active part in the Quit India movement and Netajiโs revolutionary underground during World War II. After his release from prison in September 1945, he completed his medical studies in Calcutta, London, and Vienna. Later, he went as a Rockefeller Fellow to the Harvard Medical School in Boston. He married Krishna Bose in 1955, and they have two sons and a daughter.
Smriti
Sinha
Smriti Kumar Sinha, a leading short story writer in Bishnupriya Manipuri, a little-known indigenous language of the North-East, has published three collections. Over the last three decades, he has been actively working for the development, recognition, and publicity of minor and endangered languages of the region. Smriti Kumar Sinha is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Tezpur University, Assam.
Sohini
Sen
Once a successful journalist with The Telegraph, Sohini Sen is now a full-time travel writer and photographer. Sen's other books include "The Talking Table and Other Stories," a book of short stories for children, "Yatra Pathe Rabi," a collection of travel photographs taken by her matched with Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagoreโs autograph-poems, and "Ladakh: A Photo Travelogue" (published by Niyogi Books), a tale told through high-resolution color photographs laid out in a comic-strip format.
Som
Kamei
Som Kamei ?Som Kamei is a member of the Indian Postal Services. Born in Imphal, Manipur, he is an alumnus of Hindu College, Delhi University and did his Masters and MPhil in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is currently based in Dimapur, Nagaland where he lives with his wife and three children.ย A sports enthusiast, he also enjoys travelling and reading. His interests include tribal studies and ethnic movements and he writes on cultural and social issues of North East India. This is his first book.
Soma
Das
Soma Das is a freelance editor and translates Bengali fiction and non-fiction literary works into English. Her translations include the works of renowned Bengali authors such as Shankar, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Gautam Bhattacharya, and Tilottama Majumder. She resides in the UK.
Somdatta
Mandal
Somdatta
Mandal is Professor and Head of the Department of English and
Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Having a teaching
career that spans 32 years, she has held several administrative posts in the
university. A recipient of several prestigious international fellowships and
awards from the Fulbright Foundation, Charles Wallace Trust, Rockefeller
Foundation, Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and Sahitya Akademi, her areas of
interest are American literature, contemporary fiction, film and culture
studies, diaspora studies and translation.
Somendranath
Bandyopadhyay
Somendranath Bandyopadhyay has taught in Visva-Bharatiโs Bengali Language and Literature department. He has published books on poetry, art, philosophy, and literature.
Sonali
Kokra
Sonali Kokra is
a journalist, writer, editor and media consultant from Mumbai. She writes on
feminism, gender rights, sexuality, relationships, and lifestyle. In her
12-year-long career, she has written for national and international magazines,
newspapers and websites. She was last seen as the lifestyle editor of NDTV, and
HuffPost.com.
Sonmez
Oznur
รznur Sรถnmez draws
both childrenโs books as well as
works as a freelance art director in
advertising campaigns.
Sonya
Gupta
Sonya Surabhi Gupta Sonya Surabhi Gupta is a professor in the Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She translates from Spanish and has to her credit translations of the works of Gabriel Garcรญa Mรกrquez, Josรฉ Ortega y Gasset, Rodolfo Walsh, Camilo Josรฉ Cela, and Carlos Fuentes, among others. She also coedited an anthology of stories by Indian women writers translated into Spanish, titled Lihaf: Cuentos de mujeres de la India (Madrid, 2001).
Sophia
Benjamin
Sophia Lorena Benjamin was born and grew up in Tonca Miramar, in the gorgeous state of Goa. After graduating from Dhempe College of Arts and Science, she worked as a program announcer for Goa Doordarshan and enjoyed a successful corporate career at Citibank Goa and Citigroup Dubai.
Sophia likes expressing herself and encouraging others through creative writing. She has been counted on by Goan village folk to write letters for loved ones living abroad. Life experiences are where her inspirations come from, mostly people and places. She is a Confidence and Communications Coach who has written for local and international newspapers and magazines.
Fashion, Goan fish curry rice, songs, folklore, the beach, and her family are some of the simpler things that she adores.
Soumitra
Das
Soumitra Das is a journalist born and based in Calcutta. He began his career with The Statesman and is currently with The Telegraph. He is deeply involved with visual arts and heritage issues, regularly writing on these topics. Soumitra has a popular column titled 'Flashback' on Calcutta's history and the city's rapidly changing face. In October 2007, he brought out a book on the streets of Calcutta titled "A Jaywalkerโs Guide to Calcutta," which became a bestseller. He has also contributed to the Tramjatra book on Calcutta trams published by an Australian university.
Sovon
Som
Besides being an internationally acclaimed art critic,ย Sovon Somย was a painter, poet, essayist, curator,musicologist, scriptwriter, and the firstย critic to study Tagore's paintings.
Sriparna
Chatterji
Sriparna Chatterji Sriparna Chatterjee has taught French for 10 years at Alliance Franรงaise, Kolkata, and has a Maรฎtrise de Franรงais Langue Etrangรจre from the University of Rouen. Thereafter she has been teaching French in reputed academic institutions in Kolkata.
Subas
Pani
Subas Pani is an author, translator, composer and creative
director. A retired civil servant with a PhD on Jayadevaยs Geetagovinda, he has given running commentary on the Ratha Yatra
for the national and international channels of Doordarshan, for more than two
decades. His travel articles have appeared in Swagat and Namaskar. He
has also authored two seminal works in OdiaยSampoorna
Geetagovinda and Daru Brahma: Sri
Jagannatha Bhajana Sudhasindhu and composed music for major compilations on
the same theme.ย
Subhadra
Gupta
Subhadra Sen Guptaย touches upon various aspects of Indian history and
culture in her fiction and travel writing. She captures the vibrant people,
places and history of India.
Subhashis
Das
Subhashis
Das is an explorer and independent researcher
dealing with megaliths and Indiaยs hitherto unknown tribal past. Credited with
the discovery of numerous megaliths, he has previously authored three volumes
on his research. Das is recognised for the discovery of applied astronomy in
several megaliths in Jharkhand. The authorยs discoveries and research on the
megaliths of Jharkhand feature in the stateยs history books. His findings have
also been showcased in several documentaries by National Geographic, Doordarshan, et al. He regularly gives
lectures across the country, and abroad, on megaliths and tribalismยa task he
deems essential for understanding the ancient history of India.
Subhransu
Maitra
Subhransu Maitra, Superintendent, Publication, Netaji Subhas Open University,
Kolkata, is a distinguished translator who translates modern Bengali literature
into English.ย ย
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Sucheta
Dasgupta
Sucheta
Chaudhuri
Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri is the Dean of the School of Cultural Studies and also heads the Centre for Indigenous Culture Studies at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi. She has worked at AnSI for seven years. From 1999 to 2011, she worked at the Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies, Rajiv Gandhi University, where she served as the Founder Director of the Women's Study and Research Centre. Sucheta has published four books and several research papers.
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Suddhasattwa
Basu
Suddhasattwa Basu is a painter, illustrator, author, and
animation film maker. The Song of a Scarecrow (2002) written and illustrated by him
received the Chitrakatha award, and a special mention at the Biennial
of Illustration, Bratislava, Slovakia. He has conceptualised and illustrated
many titles for the National Book Trust.
Sudha G
Tilak
Sudha G Tilak only takes up jobs that
allow her to tell storiesโtall and truthful.
She has worked for over 20 years as a
journalist with Indian and international
publications.
Sudha
Gopalakrishnan
Sudha Gopalakrishnan has studied India's traditional art forms for three decades, with a particular focus on the performing arts of Kerala. She is the President of the non-profit SAHA (Stirring Action on Heritage and the Arts). Currently, she is working on an online repository on Indian knowledge systems.
Sudhir
Chakravarti
Sudhir
Chakravartiย was engaged as a professor in three colleges and two
universities from 1958 to 2014 and was also associated with the Institute of
Development Studies Kolkata from 2010-14 as a guest professor. He had been
awarded with theย Ananda Purashkarย in 2002 and theย Sahitya
Academyย award in 2004 for his book, Baaul Fakir Katha. He is
the recipient of many awards for his academic writing.
Sudipto
Das
An alumnus of IIT KGP, Sudipto Das is a successful entrepreneur, author, musician, columnist, and a speaker at TED events. A violinist trained in Western classical music, Sudipto debuted as a music composer in 2014. History, culture, language, writing, and music are of special interest to him. As a member of an amateur music band, Kohal, he also enjoys traveling. This is his third novel.
Sujal
Bhattacharya
Sujeet
Sarkar
Sujeet
Sarkar, is engaged in promoting
and strengthening democratic governance and civil society in fragile and
conflict prone countries, over the past 15 years. Currently working as an
international advisor, in a globally reputed organization; the author is
supporting the portfolio of governance and civil society in selected countries
across Africa and Asia, including Afghanistan.The idea of writing In Search of a New Afghanistan emerged during the phase of his active stay in Afghanistan.Sarkar's governance-related work has been considered as a frontline model in Afghanistan and has been recommended for broader replication, in other conflict ridden countries.ย
Sukhendu
Ray
Sukhendu Ray Sukhendu Rayย qualified as a Chartered Accountant from England in
1950 and after working for a British multinational group Guest Keen Williams
Ltd., he retired as that companyยs Managing Director and Chief Executive.ย Post-retirement, along with his professional
assignments, he took to translating Bengali literature into English.ย
Sukrita
Kumar
Sukrita Paul
Kumar, a noted poet and critic, was
born and brought up in Kenya. She held the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at Delhi
University till recently. Formerly, a Fellow of the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla, she is also Fellow of the prestigious International
Writing Programme, Iowa (USA) and Hong Kong Baptist University.Honorary faculty at Durrell Centre at Corfu
(Greece), she is a recipient of many prestigious fellowships and residencies.
She has to her credit several collections of poems in English, many translated
into Indian and foreign languages. Her critical writings are mainly on
partition, modern Indian fiction, and gender.Her latest translations include Blind (novel)
and Nude (a collection of poems). A guest editor of journals such as Manoa (Hawaii), she has also held solo
exhibitions of her paintings. Many of Sukritaยs poems emerged from her
experience of working with homeless people and tsunami victims.
